In the 90's I was worried about my (potential) grandchildren. Bits and pieces of climate news I've run into in more recent years have made me fear for my kids in their later years.
A few months ago I ran into a documentary about how Australian climate scientists are asking each other where they plan to move with their families to escape the immanent intensification of climate disruption. Tasmania, nearer to the Antartic. Or Britain which is supposed to fare better than Europe. Another said she has several passports for her kids from English speaking countries because she wants to be flexible to move as things change. One said, I can't save them from what's coming but I can try to buy time. Some mentioned how difficult it is to talk with anyone about what they see happening.
I was taken aback and started reading around, listening to lectures, panels, interviews trying to get a sense of how many reputable climate scientists actually are thinking like that. I'm no scholar and not a very good student but I think it's safe to say there is a consensus that the train has left the station as far as cutting back on fossil fuel emissions. We've already raised atmospheric carbon dioxide to the highest level in millions of years, so fast that it will take time for the warming to catch up. But it's already on the way. We're already locked into disastrous warming well beyond IPCCs 1.5 C upper limit. As IPCC acknowledges. So now they're talking about fantastic technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere, and the global community has to take this on as an immediate, existential emergency. The US govt released something similar a few days ago.
Evidently there has been a ton of info out there for several years. I thought I was reading the climate blurbs that show up in the normal news, how'd I miss it. Now that I'm paying attention it seems like it's starting to poke it's way into the mainstream more. But the news aggregators serve up my current interests. I'm not sure how many are really noticing this. I'm going to take my own thoughts to my journal rather than continue here. Just interested to hear what anyone has to say about this, how you practice in light of this.
This was New York Magazine's most widely read article, evidently some people are paying attention.
the annotated version of New York Magazine's the Uninhabitable Earth.
nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-...l?gtm=bottom>m=top
And a free (non-annotated) audio version
livingresilience.net/uninhabitable-earth-audio-version/